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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Any of various barnacles of the genus Lapas, having a fleshy stalk that attaches to rocks or floating objects such as ship hulls. Also called gooseneck barnacle.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A stalked barnacle, as Lepas anatifera: in allusion to the fable that it gave origin to geese. See barnacle, 2.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Zoöl.) any pedunculated barnacle of the genus Anatifa or Lepas; -- called also duck barnacle. See Barnacle, and Cirripedia.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. stalked barnacle that attaches to ship bottoms or floating timbers

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  1. cirriped
  1. barnacle
  1. cirripede

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. barnacle
  2. bernicle
  3. lepas
  1. tree-goose
  2. duck-barnacle
  3. clake
  1. lepadoid
  2. anatifa
  3. stalked barnacle
  1. gooseneck barnacle
  2. bernicla
  3. rothermuck
  1. routherock
  2. anatifer
  3. duck barnacle
  1. sea-brent
  2. anatiferous

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